Hexham Bridge
Construction of a bridge across the hunter River at Hexham has been not in hand by the Department of Main Roads and is expected to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1947
409 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 21
Petrol Tax More Money Wanted for Roads
Cr. T. G. Carter, President of the Shires' Association, announced that representatives of Local Government in New South Wales and Victoria recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Crash Passengers Threatened by Poison Gas
Pairs (AAP): Fifty persons were injured when a French passenger train crashed into a goods train which was derailed when it hit barrels of poison…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tramways of Harrington Public Works Department
The town of Harrington is situated on the North Coast of N.S.W. at the entrance to the Manning River. The town owes its existence to-day as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smithtown Road Main Road Classification
The Secretary Department of Main Roads, Mr. S. R. Henderson, has written Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., as follows:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Money for Roads "Only a Drop in the Ocean."
The amount of £45,000 being made available to the Department of Main Roads for construction work was probably the outcome of very strong…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy Cyclist Killed Dust Menace Responsible on Rocks Road
In two serious accidents near Kempsey over the week-end a fiffteen-year-old boy cyclist was killed almost instantly, and three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Revaluation of Railways Urged Obsolete Plant a Bar to Progress
Drastic action by the Government to meet the drift in railway finances was urged in the Legislative Assembly by the Deputy Leader of the Country Party…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Accident
Whilst driving a motor truck on Frederickton road Saturday evening Mr. Ken Duncan was momentarily blinded by approaching headlights,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District Main Roads Shire Council's Proposals
On Tuesday afternoon members of the Manning Shire Council met Mr Close (investigating officer of the Main Roads Department) and Mr J. Mould…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forster Community Hotel Profits to Be Used on Roads
The Stroud Shire Clerk has issued the following statement regarding the council's intentions for the use of profits from the community hotel to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Main Roads Conferences in Kempsey with Local Councils
As a part of the general investigations of the post war plan to reconstruct, replan and development of main and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Bridge East Kempsey Approaches Post Office Aspect
The Department of Main Roads, in a letter to last night's Council meeting, requested the council to withhold its approval to any building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road to Wauchope Forest
Wauchope will be the key timber centre for the next eight months in the Forestry Commission scheme to speed up timber to Sydney log mills…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Main Roads
The mayor, Ald. C. A. Ryan, Ald. N. W. Joscelyne and T. A. Hudson, and the town clerk, Mr. Geo. Percy, met two representatives of the Main…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Infant Scalded Amulance on the Spot and Meets Doctor on Road
Should an eleven months old baby survive the terrible ordeal of being severely scalded, she will owe-her life to the good fortune that sent an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wins N.s. Motor Cycle Endurance Test'
An Australian motor cyclist in Claude Goulding, a son of the W. J. Goulding, the Australian designer and builder of the original side-car…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Country Roads a Gloomy Position
Unless the Federal Government disgorges some of the many millions of pounds it collects from motorists through the petrol tax and hands them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World News And Notes From The N.R.M.A. and R.A.C.A. Gloomy. Road Position
Unless the Federal Government disgorges some of the many millions of pounds it collects from motorists through the petrol tax, and hands…
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